Category Archives: Fiction

The Game of Contemporaneity (Игры современников, 同時代ゲーム) by Kenzaburō Ōe

Posted on March 26, 2022 by The Untranslated

The title of Kenzaburō Ōe’s 1979 novel Dōjidai Gemu has been translated in a variety of ways. In Vladimir Grivnin’s Russian translation that I have read the book is called The Games of Contemporaries, but I have decided to keep … Continue reading →

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Romance of the Stone of the Kingdom and the Prince of Coming-and-Going Blood (Romance d’A Pedra do Reino e o Príncipe do Sangue do Vai-e-Volta) by Ariano Suassuna

Posted on February 2, 2022 by The Untranslated

The word sertão is often translated as “backlands”, albeit to the Brazilians it denotes a specific region in the northeast of the country. Its area is approximately 250,000 square miles and the predominant relief is that of low uplands covered … Continue reading →

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The Complete Short Stories (Cuentos completos) by José Lezama Lima

Posted on November 30, 2021 by The Untranslated

These five short stories published between 1936 and 1946 in different magazines give us a unique glimpse of the Cuban author’s creative laboratory, which later produced the neobaroque miracle of Paradiso. Already at the early stage of his writing career, … Continue reading →

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